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Voices from the Favelas
Media Activism and Counter-Narratives from Below
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2021
Summary
The mainstream media in Brazil portrays favelas (unregulated low-income neighbourhoods) in a negative light. This has been the case since their emergence over a century ago. Voices from the Favelas navigates through the contemporary representation of the favelas in the established media, discussing how this partial representation impacts issues of identity and social segregation, the legitimation of structural violence in those sites, and providing an account of the recent emergence of digital social networks as “counterpublics”. In order to understand the struggle against the characterisation of the favela as a site dominated by violence (a framework which has been disseminated on a global scale and accepted as the norm), this book will take its readers inside the mindset of the favela media activists, examining the production of information and the organisation of the residents as they resist and challenge the status quo. Are the activists able to counteract the official narrative in the struggles against misrepresentation and social invisibility, or is the mainstream version of the favela still strong enough to help in the legitimation of the institutionalised violence?
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Edition
1/2021
Copyright Year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-4743-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-4744-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
184
Product Type
Monograph
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Preface No access
Introduction: Favela and Asfalto: City that Insists on Remaining Broken No access Pages 1 - 5
1 Urban Growth, Gentrification, and Social Hygiene in Rio de Janeiro 1850–1970 No access Pages 6 - 12
2 “A Good Thief Is a Dead Thief”: Police and Violence in a Century of Favela No access Pages 13 - 27
3 Discourse and Practice: A Multimodal Approach to Study Favelas No access Pages 28 - 51
4 Life in the Favela: Identity, Stigma, Struggle, and Survival No access Pages 52 - 61
5 Legitimating Violence: The Paths of Police Brutality Intersect with the Stereotypical Representation of Favelas No access Pages 62 - 74
6 How Many Voices Echo in the City? No access Pages 75 - 87
7 Tales of Violence: The Hegemony of Violence in the News about the Favelas No access Pages 88 - 100
8 Voices from the Favelas: Media Activism in the Pockets of Poverty of the City No access Pages 101 - 115
9 Mobile Revolution: Raw Footage in the Epicentre of the Fight No access Pages 116 - 141
10 The Official Voices, the Voices of the Favela: Struggles for Plurality No access Pages 142 - 161
11 Activism for Whom? Is Favela Media Activism Effective in Reaching the General Population Outside the Favelas? No access Pages 162 - 170
